Identification of a major facilitator protein from Escherichia coli involved in efflux of metabolites of the cysteine pathway

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1101-1112

  Daßler, Tobias ^a   Maier, Thomas ^b   Winterhalter, Christoph ^b   Böck, August ^a  

^a Lehrstuhl fur Mikrobiologie   (Germany)

^b Consortium fur Elektrochemische I ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CYSTEINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SULFUR; THIOSULFATE;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL TRANSPORT; CHROMOSOME; CODON; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, INITIATOR; CYSTEINE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; REGULON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0012151584     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01924.x     Document Type: Review

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